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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 278

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ominating influence will bethat of Wordsworth. The White Doe of Rylstoneperhaps invites, and has certainly encountered, com-parison with the narrative poems of Scott ; but theinterest of sueh comparison lies, not in the award-ing of preference to either, but in the realisationof the vast chasm… … BOLTON PRIORY Bolton, Gziisborough, and Kirkham 261 for himself an independent sphere ; but the contrast,as worked out, for instance, in Professor ShairpsAspects of Modern Poetry, is by no means uninstruct-ive. Wordsworths stern father, steadfast son, andsweet, ill-fated maiden, are almost…

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